heroic verse

American  

noun

1. a form of verse adapted to the treatment of heroic or exalted themes: in classical poetry, dactylic hexameter; in English and German, iambic pentameter; and in French, the Alexandrine. An example of heroic verse is

   Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring / Of woes unnumbered, heavenly goddess, sing!

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heroic verse British  

noun

1. prosody a type of verse suitable for epic or heroic subjects, such as the classical hexameter, the French Alexandrine, or the English iambic pentameter

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Etymology

Origin of heroic verse

First recorded in 1610–20

Example Sentences

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heroic verse

Of course, Lipsyte doesn’t provide a single word of of this life-changing, ruthless, heroic verse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2019

Blank′ness; Blank′-verse, verse without rhyme, esp. the heroic verse of five feet.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

The technical originality of Chaucer was, first, that he learned the secret of the ten-syllable line, and later that he used it for regular narrative and made it the proper heroic verse in English.

From Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 by Ker, W. P. (William Paton)

It is important to insist that it is the couplet, not the single line, which constitutes heroic verse.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various

Bro. to F. B. Author Bosworth Field, a poem in heroic verse.

From A Brief Handbook of English Authors by Adams, Oscar Fay